Field Notebook: Florida. 1911, 1912
Page 25
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pine fruits, in between and transverse to the terraces occur more or less extensive pine swamps, Along their margins are thickets of palm that become occultant on the higher land in the pine groves. At Daytona it is as warm as a southern sultry June day. The station is lined with carriage repairers and hotel solicitors out one if whom is allowed to say a word. They snap their fingers at you, or hold the index finger up in a beckoning way, or hold up a sign to the effect that they will and take you to your hotel in an automobile. They say this ardent innovation is the law of the railway company and actively supported by the local community. The grocers are in summer clothing and the usual summer hotel lot it is. At a station little further south from Daytona there is a road going inland and on which one can plainly see a number of depressed terraces. There is a little flat and a huge slope, and this is repeated a number of times. Orange trees are now even very new and the but there are no orchards there one from the train.